Tag: Jack Whitten

  • Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America

    Full of the pain of black experience, the works here make the galleries thrum and shimmer with energy, their theme cleverly connected like spiderwebs

  • Jack Whitten: Jack’s Jacks

    Embellished with sparkling gemstones and richly coloured tiles, Whitten’s memorial paintings on show here are not only extraordinarily beautiful, but communicate so much about the artists and musicians to whom they are dedicated

  • Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection

    A museum committed to the art of the American South presents an exhibition that highlights the contributions of postwar and contemporary African-American artists in order to assert their place within mainstream modernist narratives